I recently installed Slackware 10.0, and unlucky me, my modem did not work. I recently picked up a new one, however, in hopes unleashing the web (the modem even says it works on linux), but still I am having problems. I compiled the rpm drivers for my modem, and now it says I'm having dependency problems. I am missing /bin/bash, /bin/sh, /bin/sh, /bin/sh, and kernel = 2.4.26.

I looked in /bin/ and I see bash and sh, and as far as I know, Slackware 10.0 uses kernel 2.4.26, so is there something I am missing here? Any help on this matter is greatly appreciated.

The modem I am using is Stratitec V.92 PCI Controllerless 56K Modem.

Actually /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash
Did you get the sources or binaries in the rpm package?
How did you install it?

I got the sources and did ./build_rpm, but whenever I try to install the rpm, it gives me dependency errors.

What type of chipset does the modem use? If you run "lspci" as root it should spit back the answer.

I've run lspci before, and I remember it being lucent/agere microelectronics dsp1948c.

Slackware doesn't have a rpm database to check dependencies because it doesn't use rpm format as default.
Try installing with a argument that ignores dependencies (check rpm man page or type rpm --help to see which one is it). Another way is to convert it to a Slackware package using rpm2tgz.

I googled for lucent dsp and this site indicates that your modem needs the ltmodem drivers.

Lucent DSP

Prior to getting DSL I used the ltmodem driver in slackware installing the *tar.gz package.
Get the driver here and follow the directions on the web site. It ultimately makes a link from
/dev/modem -> /dev/ttyLT0 so choose /devmodem when setting up your dialer.

LTmodem site

Grah. I followed all of those instructions, but I still have problems. /dev/ttyLT0 does not exist, and /dev/modem still points to something else.

does your modem show up in dmesg ( just type " dmesg " in a console )?
maybe you can find there what's the device-name...

egag

I did not see my modem in dmesg.

Did you or some program add the correct lines in your /etc/modules.conf? You need some lines in that file to load the modem module as shown here (first link shepper posted): http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/...c/Ltmodem.html

if i understand correct, you've compiled a module for your modem ?
if so, check if it's loaded with " lsmod " and , if it's missing,
try to load it with modprobe...

if that modem is recognised by lspci, it should also show up in dmesg...
( at least that's what i would expect )

egag

That's exactly what I was doing as you just posted that. I ran modprobe, and it showed up in dmesg as a lucent modem using 8.31 drivers located at /dev/ttyS0. I then ran ln -sf /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem, but when I try to dial out, it won't go past 'Initializing modem'.

did you check your /etc/modules.conf
to see if it's got the proper options, as gbonvehi mentioned ?

egag

Yes, /etc/modules.conf has the correct lines added to it.